sys call

This blogpost is about how to print the system call arguments of a system call which is caught with ‘catch’ or ‘break’ in gdb. The reason for this blogpost is I spend quite some time on searching for this, and working around this, so writing it in a blogpost might help others who spend (some of) their time in the gdb debugger, and encounter the same issue.

When you break on a system call in gdb, it will show you something like this: